PART THIRD. 



residuum 

 cossettes. 



Objection to 

 its use. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Feeding Fresh and Siloed Sugar Beet Residuum. 



Early apprecia- FROM the very origin of the beet sugar industry it was sug- 

 tion of the value gested that residuum from the beet sugar factories should be 

 of sugar beet uge( j f or ca ^j e feeding, and if one consults the work of Achard 

 it will be noticed there are a few lines respecting this subject, 

 but curious to say, long years elapsed before the question was 

 given the attention it deserved. 



The fact of being able to keep the residuum cossettes in an 

 excellent condition during several months of the year, at a period 

 when fodders in general are expensive, was a most important 

 advantage that all intelligent farmers appreciated. 



Many objections were made to this residuum pulp (as it was 

 then called), but the arguments used were certainly errone- 

 ous. Frick relates that in 1850, when efforts were made to 

 arrange a fodder out of pressed pulp the residuum of hydraulic 

 pressing, which was then in vogue the same objections were 

 maintained everywhere; for example, it was claimed that certain 

 lice were often found in the stomach of animals fed, and that 

 they had no other origin than beet pulps. Later on similar 

 difficulties were contended with when endeavoring to arrange 

 for the utilization of exhausted diffusion cossettes. Some 

 farmers refused to recognize that the residuum contained any 

 nutrients whatever, for at that time it was agreed that all 

 the nourishing constituents of the products had been removed, 

 with the water during pressing. 



The heavy percentage of water contained in the residuum 

 pulp, when diffusion was first introduced, was another argu- 

 ment against the general use of this valuable product. It was 

 thought that the health of the animals would suffer. 



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